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This passage discusses Minoan buildings constructed during the Bronze Age on the Greek Island of Crete.
Although the term "Palace" is widely used and deeply ingrained in Minoan archaeology, Driessen has remarked that the term has been used to describe a number of quite different things and that there is no consensus on what the term signifies. The debate usually centers on the presumed functions of the buildings. Evans assumed that the buildings known as Palaces had several roles, including royal residences, administrative centers, economic centers, manufacturing centers, and cult centers. Over the years, each of those functions has been called into question. For example, L. Schoep notes, "The use of the term Palace carries with it a whole host of perhaps unhelpful baggage, which consciously or unconsciously encourages interpretations of the "Palace" as the residence of a royal elite, occupying supreme position within a hierarchical social and political structure"; she suggests using the more neutral term "court-centered building" instead. The problem, however, comes not from the architectural label one applies, but from making unwarranted assumptions about how the Palaces were used. I use the word "Palaces" (capitalized to signal its arbitrariness) not to imply a range of functions but to refer to a group of buildings that share a set of formal elements.
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The author suggests that the "debate" mentioned in the passage is misguided because the participants in the debate
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The author would most likely agree with which of the following statements about the use of the term "Palace" in Minoan archaeology?
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Since coffee beans from Goruna Island are among the world`s costliest, most coffee blends labeled "Goruna Blend" contain only 25 percent Goruna coffee. In many such blends, the distinctive Goruna flavor is virtually undetectable. Consequently, the reputation of Goruna coffee has declined. Unfortunately, new labeling restrictions by Goruna`s growers` cooperative are unlikely to reverse this decline,since they continue to allow coffee roasters to use the words "Goruna Blend" for blends containing only 25 percent Goruna beans.
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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Despite the widespread availability of electrical refrigeration, the antimicrobial properties of spices may still be useful. During 1971-1990, food poisoning-primarily bacterial-affected 29 out of every 100,000 Japanese but only 3 out of every 100,000 Koreans, despite the countries` similar temperate climate. Lee`s suggestion that the difference may have been due to cultural variations in food handling and preparation may well be correct. But, in addition, although Japanese meat-based recipes collectively used more kinds of spices, Korean recipes more frequently called for at least one spice,contained more spices per recipe, and more frequently called for highly inhibitory spices. As a result, an average Korean recipe most likely inhibits a significantly greater fraction of bacteria than an average Japanese recipe.
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Select the sentence that describes the evidence from which the argument derives an explanation of a phenomenon.
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In the mid-1970s, historians often debated the motives of the American Revolutionaries. For neo-Progressive scholars, the Revolution was rooted in the experience of social inequity and in a democratic striving against privilege. These scholars focused less frequently on great men of the Revolution than on ordinary people-farmers, artisans, and laborers-and marginalized groups.
Conversely, neo-Whig scholars believed that republican political ideas determined the actions of the Revolutionaries. Their Revolution followed from the shared belief that powerful men had always sought, and would always seek, to deprive their fellow citizens of liberty and property. Ironically, in the conservative act of defending their own liberties and estates, the decidedly elitist gentlemen who articulated revolutionary ideals also liberated egalitarian impulses that would produce a democratic society.
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The author of the passage would most likely agree with which of the following statement?
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According to the passage, which of the following details regarding the lotus-shaped ewer supports the claim of the "other authorities" about the dating of that ewer?
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Until around 1930 few United States Civil War historians paid much attention to Southerners who opposed the 1861-1865 secession from the United States by a confederacy of Southern states. Southern historians clung instead to a notion of the South`s unanimity in the face of Northern aggression. Only when scholars such as Lonn decided to examine this side of the war did historian of the Confederacy begin to recognize the existence of Southerners loyal to the Union (Unionists). While these early historians of Southern dissent broke new ground, they also reproduced Confederate authoritie`s negative view of loyalists as shady characters driven by dubious motives. Even Tatum, who took a largely sympathetic attitude toward loyalists, tended to lump them into nebulous categories, offering broad generalizations that ignored the particulars of Unionists` identities and experiences.
This early-twentieth-century historiography nonetheless represented the leading research on dissent in the South until the 1960s and 1970s. Spurred by the advent of social historical methods, a new generation of historians found Unionists interesting as manifestations of the Confederacy`s internal weaknesses. Focusing on the Appalachian Mountain and upper South regions of the Confederacy, these scholars argued that there was a profound divide among Southern Whites between those who benefited economically from slave-run plantations and those who did not. One such historian was Escott, who emphasized regional and economic conflict among Southerners. Escott cast Unionists and other dissenters as antiplanter mountaineers who could not, by reason of economic and social alienation, identify with the proslavery Southern cause. This theme has heavily influenced the work of subsequent scholars, who commonly place Unionists at the extreme end of a continuum of class-based Confederate disaffection that was ultimately responsible for the South`s collapse. Because the driving force behind such inquiries into loyalist history has been a desire to explain Confederate ideology, politics, and defeat, emphasis has been placed on the ways loyalist Southerners diverged from the political and economic mainstream of Confederate nationalism.
Only recently have some Civil War historians begun to make Unionists and their experiences, rather than the Confederate state, the center of inquiry. These scholars have done intensive community and local studies of dissenting groups that take into account a range of social and cultural, as well as military and political, factors at work on the Southern home front. Hoping to better understand who remained loyal to the Union during the war, these historians have sought to explain the Civil War`s underlying character, dimensions, and impact in particular counties or towns, especially in the upper South and Appalachia. This relatively new trend has stressed the particular, delved into the complexities of political allegiances on the home front, and, as Sutherland notes, highlighted "the gritty experience of real people".
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The passage suggests that Escott differed from both Lonn and Tatum in that Escott
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The passage suggests that Lonn and Tatum differed from one another in
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Which of the following best describes the function of the highlighted sentence?
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Potatoes are naturally rich in salicylates, substances believed to reduce the risk of heart attack. Although fried potatoes contain fats and substantially increase the risk of heart attack, boiled potatoes turned out to be prepared without any fats at all. Therefore, if what is commonly believed about salicylates is in fact true, boiled potatoes would be a useful addition to the diet of anyone who wants to reduce his or her risk of heart attack.
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